On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 09:49 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 17:44 -0800, Des Dougan wrote:On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 08:31 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:So there's no concept of a "default domain"? I've frequently thought this would be useful, especially for those of us who work from several locations. I correspond with a large user community at my institution, both from the office and from home, so it's not a question of putting everyone in my address book, and I've found the LDAP lookup from Evo to be really slow -- whereas Thunderbird for some reason is very fast, against the same server -- so it would be a nice feature. I guess I'll file a wishlist request.If I type in e.g. "des" with no domain, it will default to my account name on my server, and will deliver mail correctly. Is this not what you're asking?Not always. At work, this is fine. At home, my SMTP server belongs to an ISP and their concept of default domain is not what I want. I filed a wishlist bug but someone replied that it was harder than it looked because addresses with no domain are just sent to the SMTP server. I think it could still be done fairly easily (if no "default domain" is set, just behave as now, otherwise use it). There is another solution: set up your own sendmail locally to do the right thing. Not realistic for Joe User.
Every linux installation has an MTA installed. It's needed in order to send local email. It was pretty easy for me to tell postfix to send all non-local mail out to my ISP's smtp server. You would, though, need to add a "local spool" as well as pop3 as input sources. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it." George Orwell, 1941
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